From e545137dc9860734a864f07fad5e6e72f8f58a74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Kai=20M=C3=BChlbauer?= <kai.muehlbauer@uni-bonn.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:41:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add suggestions from review

---
 doc/whats-new.rst          | 3 ++-
 xarray/coding/variables.py | 2 +-
 xarray/conventions.py      | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst
index 6bae0fac99e..7ff71d2a2d3 100644
--- a/doc/whats-new.rst
+++ b/doc/whats-new.rst
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ Breaking changes
 - drop support for `cdms2 <https://github.com/CDAT/cdms>`_. Please use
   `xcdat <https://github.com/xCDAT/xcdat>`_ instead (:pull:`8441`).
   By `Justus Magin <https://github.com/keewis`_.
-
 - Bump minimum tested pint version to ``>=0.22``. By `Deepak Cherian <https://github.com/dcherian>`_.
+- Minimum supported versions for the following packages have changed: ``h5py >=3.7``, ``h5netcdf>=1.1``.
+  By `Kai Mühlbauer <https://github.com/kmuehlbauer>`_.
 
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/xarray/coding/variables.py b/xarray/coding/variables.py
index 085725b4b7c..487197605e8 100644
--- a/xarray/coding/variables.py
+++ b/xarray/coding/variables.py
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ def decode(self):
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
 
-class ObjectStringCoder(VariableCoder):
+class ObjectVLenStringCoder(VariableCoder):
     def encode(self):
         return NotImplementedError
 
diff --git a/xarray/conventions.py b/xarray/conventions.py
index 65c55207e2a..75f816e6cb4 100644
--- a/xarray/conventions.py
+++ b/xarray/conventions.py
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ def decode_cf_variable(
         var = strings.EncodedStringCoder().decode(var)
 
     if original_dtype == object:
-        var = variables.ObjectStringCoder().decode(var)
+        var = variables.ObjectVLenStringCoder().decode(var)
         original_dtype = var.dtype
 
     if mask_and_scale: